Slay week 3
Pastor Rick Wright
“Fight for Friendships”
(I Samuel 20:1-42)
1 Then David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and went and said to Jonathan, “What have I done? What is my iniquity, and what is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?”
2 So Jonathan said to him, “By no means! You shall not die! Indeed, my father will do nothing either great or small without first telling me. And why should my father hide this thing from me? It is not so!”
3 Then David took an oath again, and said, “Your father certainly knows that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said, ‘Do not let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved.’ But atruly, as the Lord lives and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.”
4 So Jonathan said to David, “Whatever you yourself desire, I will do it for you.”
5 And David said to Jonathan, “Indeed tomorrow is the bNew Moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king to eat. But let me go, that I may chide in the field until the third day at evening. 6 If your father misses me at all, then say, ‘David earnestly asked permission of me that he might run over dto Bethlehem, his city, for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family.’ 7 eIf he says thus: ‘It is well,’ your servant will be safe. But if he is very angry, be sure that fevil is determined by him. 8 Therefore you shall gdeal kindly with your servant, for hyou have brought your servant into a covenant of the Lord with you. Nevertheless, iif there is iniquity in me, kill me yourself, for why should you bring me to your father?”
9 But Jonathan said, “Far be it from you! For if I knew certainly that evil was determined by my father to come upon you, then would I not tell you?”
10 Then David said to Jonathan, “Who will tell me, or what if your father answers you roughly?”
11 And Jonathan said to David, “Come, let us go out into the field.” So both of them went out into the field. 12 Then Jonathan said to David: “The Lord God of Israel is witness! When I have 1sounded out my father sometime tomorrow, or the third day, and indeed there is good toward David, and I do not send to you and tell you, 13 may jthe Lord do so and much more to Jonathan. But if it pleases my father to do you evil, then I will report it to you and send you away, that you may go in safety. And kthe Lord be with you as He has lbeen with my father. 14 And you shall not only show me the kindness of the Lord while I still live, that I may not die; 15 but myou shall not 2cut off your kindness from my 3house forever, no, not when the Lord has cut off every one of the enemies of David from the face of the earth.”
16 So Jonathan made a covenant with the 4house of David, saying, n“Let the Lord require it at the hand of David’s enemies.”
17 Now Jonathan again caused David to vow, because he loved him; ofor he loved him as he loved his own soul.
41 As soon as the lad had gone, David arose from a place toward the south, fell on his face to the ground, and bowed down three times. And they kissed one another; and they wept together, but David more so. 42 Then Jonathan said to David, y“Go in peace, since we have both sworn in the name of the Lord, saying, ‘May the Lord be between you and me, and between your descendants and my descendants, forever.’ ” So he arose and departed, and Jonathan went into the city.
1. Real Friends make real
A. David’s Problem is
(Vs.1-2)
(Mt. 18:15-16)
B. David Pleads for
(Vs. 3-4)
(I Sam 18:1-3)
2. Real Friends make real
A. Jonathan looks at
(Vs. 5-8)
B. Jonathan doesn’t
(Vs. 9-15)
(Pro. 18:24)
3. Real friends make real
A. The
(Vs.16-17)
B. The
(Vs. 41-42)